Biography
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│ EARLY INFANTILE AUTISM │
│ (Leo Kanner, 1943) │
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│ EXTREME AUTISTIC ALONENESS │ │ OBSESSIVE DESIRE FOR │ │ COMMUNICATIVE ABNORMALITIES │
│ │ │ PRESERVATION OF SAMENESS │ │ & PECULIAR MOTOR PATTERNS │
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│• Innate inability to relate │ │• Dread of change or novelty │ │• Immediate & delayed echolalia │
│• Treats people as objects │ │• Rigid, unbending rituals │ │• Pronominal reversal (“you”/”I”) │
│• Failure of anticipatory │ │• Panic when routines or │ │• Literal, non-intentional usage │
│ posture in infancy │ │ physical spaces are shifted │ │• Stereotypies & hand-flapping │
│• Aversion to direct eye/face │ │• Inflexible, repetitive │ │• Fascination with spinning, │
│ contact │ │ behavioral sequencing │ │ mechanical objects │
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